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Portfolio Review and Admission
All students entering the Art Department as majors are admitted under either the B.A. in Art or the B.A. in Art History, Theory, and Criticism. After completing the foundation courses and one other course in ART, CDES, or ARTH, those wishing to pursue the B.F.A. in Art, B.F.A. in Art Education or the B.F.A. in Communication Design will be required to pass a formal portfolio review for admittance.
Portfolio submissions must be completed by the end of the 6th week of the fall and spring semesters. Faculty will conduct reviews and students will be notified of the results in time to make registration decisions for the following semester. Refer to portfolio submission deadlines below.
Spring 2025 Portfolio Submission Deadlines
Portfolios are to be submitted electronically to msudenver.slideroom.com by Friday, February 28th, 2025 at midnight.
Applicants will be notified via their cnlawyer18.com email accounts of their acceptance status no later than Friday, March 14th, 2025 at midnight.
Studio Art Portfolio Submission Workshops
Students interested in learning more about the Studio Program portfolio submission process are encouraged to attend one of the following workshops or arrange an individual advising appointment with their Faculty Advisor. If you don’t know who your advisor is please email the Department of Art office at [email protected].
Workshop Dates:
Open Workshop #1
• Tuesday, 2.4.25, 12:30– 1:30pm
• Location: AR 296 or Online via Teams
• Faculty: leslie boyd
Open Workshop #2
• Wednesday, 2.12.25, 11am-12pm
• Location: AR 166B or Online via Teams
• Faculty: Michael Bernhardt
Open Workshop #3
• Thursday, 2.20.25, Time TBD
• Location: TBD
• Faculty: TBD
Contact LESLIE BOYD
with any Portfolio questions
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Art
The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art prepares students to be critical, creative thinkers and makers. Students often become practicing artists who exhibit their work in galleries both near and abroad and might continue their research in graduate studies. Whatever your final career choice, the skills of the B.F.A. are appropriate for careers throughout the creative economy.
The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art is interdisciplinary. Students select an emphasis of 9 credits in ceramics, digital and emerging art practices, drawing, jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking, or sculpture, and 6 credits a complementary area. If the emphasis is in a two-dimensional area, the complementary area would be one of the three-dimensional areas; if the emphasis is in a three-dimensional area, the complementary area would be one of the two-dimensional areas. Students also take at least 12 credits in interdisciplinary integrated media coursework.
Consistent with the Department of Art, student learning outcomes are designed around three assessable themes: research, execution, and articulation.
In the B.F.A. in Art, instruction should prepare students to:
- make artworks that shows evidence of intellectual inquiry and curiosity;
- convey ideas that are consistently reinforced through the execution of cohesive work(s) that are the result of the process of making;
- use effective and eloquent oral, written, and visual communication of enduring ideas.